Notes from Within
REFLECTIONS ON HEALING, SPIRIT, AND THE BODYThoughts, stories, and gentle insight on the nervous system, trauma, somatic healing, intuition, and the work of befriending yourself.
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from the blogRecent Reflections
Stories, insight, and honest reflections from the places where the body, nervous system, and inner world meet.
Untracking Myself: How Ditching My Apple Watch Reconnected Me to My Body
What happens when you stop tracking your body and start listening instead? In this reflection on mind-body connection, Mallory shares how removing her Apple Watch revealed a deeper sense of body awareness, intuition, and inner trust.
The Day of Inner Blooming
Valentine’s Day doesn’t have to be a performance. This gentle reflection offers a quieter way to practice love through presence, honesty, and inner devotion.
Turning Inward Before Outward
Do you wake up already bracing?
Before your feet hit the floor, before the coffee brews, before the kids burst in with their pitter-patter and the pets demand their morning rituals—your stomach is already in knots. Your heart races. The day hasn’t begun, and yet your nervous system is already sprinting.
The Autonomic Nervous System: your body’s internal smoke alarm
Your nervous system is a beautifully complex thing—broken down into two main branches, then more branches within those branches, and so on. But when we talk about nervous system healing, we are focusing in on a “sub-branch” called the autonomic nervous system (ANS).
Its job? To constantly scan your environment for cues of safety or danger (remember that smoke detector I talked about last week)? And depending on what it detects, it activates one of two modes. Cue…your sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems.
NOT SURE WHERE TO BEGIN?Start with what feels familiar.
You don’t have to know exactly what you’re looking for. Sometimes understanding what’s happening beneath the surface is a good place to start.
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